[LINK] How Do I Stop Spam from the Palmer United Party?

Scott Howard scott at doc.net.au
Mon Feb 3 09:40:35 AEDT 2014


On Sun, Feb 2, 2014 at 2:20 PM, Tom Worthington <tom.worthington at tomw.net.au
> wrote:

> > ... As far as I am aware, being a political party means they are
> > outside the anti-spam legislation. ...
>
> Discussion on the Whirlpool Forum appeared to indicate that political
> parties are exempt from some legislation, but not the spam act:
> http://forums.whirlpool.net.au/archive/2148871


The relevant section of the spam act reads :

"SPAM ACT 2003 - SECT 44

Implied freedom of political communication

      This Act does not apply to the extent (if any) that it would infringe
any constitutional doctrine of implied freedom of political communication."


  Scott



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